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Building insurance - make the call

Getting Building Insurance is probably the most important thing when it comes to safeguarding your home. Here is everything you need to know about buildings and content insurance.

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Beverly - a top performer

The suburb of Beverley in Johannesburg is now at the top of many aspirant buyers’ lists. So says Cecile Leck of Lew Geffen Sotheby’s Lonehill which services the area.

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Bodies corporate - defaulting levy payers

Owners of sectional title units who run up substantial levy arrears and then try to sell their units without meeting these debts – or whose units are being sold in execution – will discover that ...

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Check before your appoint your Agent

The liquidation of Constantia Sectional Title Management (CSTM), one of the larger Gauteng companies operating in this field, should send a warning signal to every sectional title trustee and sectional title owners in South ...

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Fundamental tasks of sectional title trustees

In its ongoing campaign to “educate” the trustees of bodies corporate and homeowners’ associations, IHFM, the fast-growing property management company, has time and again to remind them that certain basic tasks are their ...

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Resolving sectional title disputes

The growing popularity of arbitration rather than litigation in sectional title property disputes stems from its being both less expensive and faster. The Sectional Title Act’s Prescribed Management Rule 71 was recently amended ...

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Sectional Title Schemes: The Rules

There are many cases where trustees and/or their members do not know the difference between management and conduct rules. Conduct rules apply to the day to day business of living together in a complex or an estate where every ...

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Should I buy property now? YES!

Given the flood of advice from a whole host of residential property spokespeople that now is the right time to buy property, can this be seen as valid or is it simply simply self-serving? Many investors are now divesting from ...

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Interest Rates and the Big Picture

The unpredictability of interest rates and the individual fiscal discipline of property owners is food for thought. Current global economic turbulence and local economic predictions for a tough six months ahead, is once again a ...